The pharmacotherapy of depressive illness in adolescents: an open-label comparison of fluoxetine with imipramine-treated historical controls

M StroberDepartment of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, and the Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital, School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, 90024 1759, USAJ Clin Psychiatry 60:164-9. 1999

..To document rates of substance use disorders (SUD) in adolescents with unipolar major depressive disorder and to examine demographic, clinical, and biological factors associated with the development of SUD...

..Because many antidepressants suppress REM sleep, the differences in baseline REM sleep observed might be related to the greater sensitivity of some ethnic-minority depressed patients to pharmacotherapy...

Relationship between depression and substance use disorders in adolescent women during the transition to adulthood

..Combination immunosuppression with FK-506 and RS-61443, therefore, may be required to allow composite tissue transplantation to become a predictable clinical reality in the future...

The pharmacotherapy of depressive illness in adolescents: an open-label comparison of fluoxetine with imipramine-treated historical controls

M StroberDepartment of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, and the Neuropsychiatric Institute and Hospital, School of Medicine, University of California at Los Angeles, 90024 1759, USAJ Clin Psychiatry 60:164-9. 1999

..This open-label, 6-week clinical trial investigated the response to fluoxetine in medication-naive adolescents hospitalized for treatment of major depression...

Effect of bupropion-SR on REM sleep: relationship to antidepressant response

..Differential response to treatment was associated with changes in REM activity and density, but not with REM latency. However, in contrast to many other antidepressants, REM sleep was not suppressed...

REM sleep and cortisol responses to scopolamine during depression and remission in women

..The results also suggest that the central cholinergic system(s) that regulate(s) REM sleep may be more sensitive to dysregulation than the cholinergic system(s) that control(s) nocturnal cortisol secretion...

Depressive symptoms and smoking among Hong Kong Chinese adolescents

T H LamDepartment of Community Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, ChinaAddiction 100:1003-11. 2005